 You write two or three words on a paper ; he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball : a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in...  Nature - Síða 219 breytti - 1880Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | Arthur Young - 1889 - 472 síður
...turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder...down the words they indicate : from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1891 - 790 síður
...turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder...words they indicate, from which it appears he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1891 - 894 síður
...turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder...by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, •••rites down the wonls they indicate, from which it appears he has formed an alphabet of motions.... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1892 - 452 síður
...turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder...down the words they indicate : from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 602 síður
...machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith-ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer...words they indicate: from which it appears he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence... | |
 | 1858 - 1062 síður
...turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine a V(' 4h # _P.Mq 0 , ?S c9 m 'e 2] b_U $ e ... _$ J :9 $ KwǍ $ mJ l IS i ]! "; P & ) formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1900 - 718 síður
...rooms, thus described by Arthur Young : "In electricity he had made a remarkable discovery. You write a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by observing the corresponding motions of the bafl, writes down the words they indicate. From which it... | |
 | Beckles Willson - 1903 - 246 síður
...turns a machine enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small, fine pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder...of the ball, writes down the words they indicate. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence might be carried on at... | |
 | Edwin James Houston - 1905 - 668 síður
...apparatus. i.omond-s enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder...down the words they indicate, from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1906 - 690 síður
...turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder...down the words they indicate : from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
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